Senior Data Engineer - AVP

Barclays•Jefferson Park, NY

1d•$120,000 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Data Engineer - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping the bank’s digital future and advancing data-driven decision-making across the organization. You will design and build scalable data pipelines and modern data platforms that power critical business capabilities. Partnering with key stakeholders, you will help accelerate strategic location and customer-focused programs while delivering measurable business value. As part of a forward-thinking engineering community, you will work with cutting-edge technologies, drive innovation, and continuously expand your expertise—giving you the opportunity to lead, influence outcomes, and make an immediate, meaningful impact.

Requirements

Considerable experience in designing and building ETL/data pipelines using Scala for large-scale data processing
Practical expertise with AWS ecosystem (S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda, EC2, EKS, Jupyter, IAM ,CFT , PostgreSQL)
Proficiency in DevOps pipelines, Container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes on EKS) & JIRA
Advanced proficiency in SQL and data modeling, including performance tuning
Ample problem-solving ability, multitasking capability, and ability to handle shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Quantexa product including entity resolution and network analytics workflows
Knowledge of AML / Financial Crime Surveillance domain and transaction monitoring systems
Good stakeholder engagement with compliance, investigation, and technology teams

Responsibilities

Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Design and build scalable data pipelines and modern data platforms that power critical business capabilities.
Partner with key stakeholders to help accelerate strategic location and customer-focused programs while delivering measurable business value.
Work with cutting-edge technologies, drive innovation, and continuously expand expertise.